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The other chiefs of the Greeks slept that night; but King Agamemnon / slept not; sore troubled was he in heart. For when he looked towards / Troy, and saw the many fires, and heard the sound of flute and pipe / and the murmur of men, he was astonished; and when he looked towards / the ships he groaned, and tore his hair, thinking what evil might / come to the people. Then it seemed good to him to seek counsel from / Nestor. So he arose, and drew his coat about his breast, and bound / the sandals on his feet, and wrapped a tawny lion's hide about him, / and took a spear in his hand.
To Menelaus also came no sleep that night. So he arose, and wrapped / a leopard's skin about him, and put on his head a cap of bronze, and / took a spear in his hand, and went to seek his brother.